Spencer Campbell

Producer

Spencer Campbell is an award winning freelance producer and director with a broad range of experience in television drama. He has produced comedy dramas like ‘Cold Feet’, for which he won a BAFTA, crime thrillers like the award winning ‘Murder in the Outback’ and the original series of ‘Mad Dogs’, and precinct dramas, such as ‘Waterloo Road’. He was the series producer of the multi award winning kid’s series ‘4 O’Clock Club’.

Spencer has worked extensively, producing major drama series and individual films for all major broadcasters ITV, BBC, C4, CBBC and most recently for Sky1 HD.

He is currently producing Sky 1’s comedy drama series ‘Stella’ for Tidy Productions.

Credits

TELEVISION

Date: 2016

Production (role):

TINA & BOBBY

Company:

ITV STUDIOS

Project details:

Mini series based on the memoirs of Tina Moore

Starring Michelle Keegan and Lorne MacFadyen

Date: 2014-17

Production (role):

STELLA 4, 5 & 6

Company:

Tidy Productions / Sky 1

Project details:

Producer of the last three series of the comedy drama set in the isolated Welsh Valley town of Pontyberry

Starring Ruth Jones, who created and wrote most of the episodes, and featuring Patrick Baladi

Date: 2013

Production (role):

BLANDINGS

Company:

Mammoth / BBC 1

Project details:

Producer (and second unit director) of the PG Wodehouse adaption by Guy Andrews

4 women are forced to go on the run when their plot to double cross a cheating and dangerous husband backfires

Stars Alex Kingston and Annette Crosbie

Date: 2007-08

Company:

Shed Media

Project details:

Development Executive

Exec in charge of developing various drama and comedy projects for Shed Media

Date: 2007

Production (role):

WATERLOO ROAD (Executive Producer)

Company:

BBC 1 (Series 3 & 4, 20 Episodes)

Project details:

Popular school drama set in a failing comprehensive

Stars Neil Morrissey, Eva Pope and Jason Merrells

Date: 2007

Production (role):

CATWALK DOGS

Company:

Shed Productions / ITV

Project details:

One off romantic comedy about a couple whose marital problems end with them going head to head as rivals in the bitchy world of pedigree dogs

Stars Kris Marshall and Georgia Mackenzie

Date: 2006

Production (role):

MURDER IN THE OUTBACK

Company:

ITV / Film Finance Corporation, Australia / Network Ten

Project details:

2-hour film about Joanne Lees, whose boyfriend Peter Falconio was murdered in the Australian Outback and how she became the number one suspect

Stars Joanne Froggat as Joanne Lees and Bryan Brown as Rex Wild QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who successfully conducted the trial to convict Bradley Murdoch

Filmed entirely on location in Australia

Date: 2006

Production (role):

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Company:

ITV

Project details:

6 x 1 hour comedy drama

Spin-off series about best friends and fierce rivals, Colin and Howie

Dirs. Paul Seed and Tony Dow

Wrs. Jeff Pope and Bob Mills

Stars Robson Green and Mark Benton as the combatants with Sian Reeves and Nicola Stephenson as their wives

Av. audience 6 million

Date: 2005

Production (role):

DONOVAN

Company:

ITV

Project details:

3 x 90 minutes

Three episode spinoff series starring Tom Conti as a police forensic scientist. Donovan and team investigate a murder of a millionaire, a serial killer of prostitutes and a possible terrorist attack. Co-starred Samantha Bond, Ryan Cartwright and guest starred, Peter Capaldi, Christine Tremarco, and Claire King

Dirs. Brian Kirk, Ciaran Donnelly and Simon Delaney

Av. audience 6.5 million

Date: 2004

Production (role):

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

Project details:

1 x 2 hours

Christmas telemovie about best friends and brothers-in-law, Colin and Howie, played by Robson Green and Mark Benton. Their friendly rivalry takes an unhealthy turn when the boys start to try to outdo each other’s display of Christmas lights

Dir. Paul Seed

Wrs. Jeff Pope and Bob Mills

11 million

Date: 2004

Production (role):

COLD FEET

Project details:

(Series V)

4 x 90 minutes

The final four eps of the award winning series about the six friends, Adam & Rachel, David and Karen, and Pete and Jenny. This is the one where Rachel dies and Jenny returns

Stylish 2 part crime thriller starring Tom Conti as a disgraced forensic scientist and author who is brought back by the Police to solve a copycat murder of a crime he has featured in his writing. Co starring Samantha Bond, Ryan Cartwright, and Indira Varma.

Dir. Simon Delaney

Wr. Mike Cullen

8 million

Date: 2003

Production (role):

COLD FEET (Producer / Series Producer)

Project details:

(Series IV)

6 x 1 hour

Bafta award winning series about the six friends as they make life changing decisions. This is the one where they go to Australia to see Pete get married but end up witnessing the break up of David and Karen’s marriage

Dirs. Ciaran Donnelly, Tim Whitby and Simon Delaney

Wr. Mike Bullen

8 million av.

Date: 2001-02

Production (role):

COLD FEET

Project details:

(Series III)

8 x 1 hour

Comedy drama series about six youngish couples living in Manchester. Starring James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale. This is the one where David and Karen are the first pair to have a baby. Adam and Rachel finally get married, despite a narrow scrape for Adam on his stag weekend and Pete and Jenny split up

Dirs. Jon Jones, Simon Delaney and Tim Whitby

Wrs Mike Bullen and David Nicholls

7.5 million av.

Date: 2000

Production (role):

THE GRIMLEYS (Series Producer)

Project details:

(Series III, 8 Episodes)

Comedy series about the pains of growing up for two teenage brothers, Gordon and Darren in a truly dysfunctional family. Set in the Black Country, in the late Seventies, this series features the advent of punk. Stars Brian Conley as the boys’ sadistic PE teacher Doug Digby, Amanda Holden as their English teacher, the gorgeous Miss Titley and Noddy Holder as Neville Holder, the music teacher. With Jan Ravens and Nigel Planer as the parents from hell.

Wr. Jed Mercurio

Production (role):

COMIN 'ATCHA CLEOPATRA

Company:

Initial / Endemol / CITV

Project details:

7 part comedy and drama series about the antics of a 3 sister teen girl band from Manchester as they hit the big time

Starring Cleopatra

Production (role):

MY WONDERFUL LIFE

Company:

ITV

Project details:

10 x 1 hour

Comedy series written by Simon Nye, Paul Dornan and Amanda Swift. It centred on the troubled life of a single mum, Donna, played by Emma Wray, as she juggles a disastrous private life with boyfriend Roger, an ex-husband and the pressures of keeping her job as a nursing sister. Also starred Tony Robinson, Hamish Clark, Phil Glenister, & Elizabeth Berrington

Dirs. Keith Washington and Martin Dennis

Production (role):

THE GRIMLEYS

Company:

ITV (Series I & II)

Project details:

Comedy series set in the seventies about, Darren Grimley and his disastrous family as he grows up in the Black Country when Glam Rock was in its pomp and a Vauxhall Viva with a set of furry dice was an acceptable form of transport

Powerful drama written by Joe Penhall about a young schizophrenic and the effect his illness and actions have on his loved ones. Featured Anita Dobson. Nicola Stephenson and Andrew Lancel

Dir. Mike Barker

Prod. Richard Fell

Production (role):

WEIRD NIGHT (Executive Producer)

Company:

BBC 2

Project details:

Overall exec in charge of themed evening Weird Night sought to explore rather than explain. Programmes included Fortean Review of the Year, Last American Freak show, Weird Shit Happens, Strange Days and Roger Corman presents

Production (role):

LAST AMERICAN FREAK SHOW (Executive Producer)

Company:

BBC 2

Project details:

1 hour

Documentary about the demise of the American Carnival Freak Show featuring acts like the Wolf Boys, Lobster Man, Fattest Man in the World and their impresario Wade Hall

Dir. Mike Barker

Production (role):

HELL (Series Producer)

Company:

BBC

Project details:

13 x 10 minutes

Mark Lamarr presents lightning fast trip about all the events we would choose not to relive, everything from the Driving Test to Losing Virginity

Production (role):

LIVING SOAP (Series Producer)

Company:

BBC

Project details:

Ground breaking series in which six guinea pig students live together in Manchester and agree to have their lives shown each and every week. Big Brother’s older brother

Production (role):

RONSON MISSION (Director)

Company:

BBC 2

Project details:

Columnist, Jon Ronson takes an idiosyncratic view of the world of celebrity pets and their owners

Production (role):

THE WORD (Producer / Director)

Company:

C4

Project details:

Controversial, late night music, chat and occasional bit of buttock clenching and its spin-off, Access All Areas

Production (role):

BIG BREAKFAST PILOT (OB Director)

Company:

C4

Project details:

Down Your Doorstep segments with Mark Lamarr

Production (role):

CORONATION STREET (Director)

Company:

ITV

Project details:

Britain's most popular soap serial. It was the time of Bet Lynch running The Rovers and Alan Bradley beating up Rita

Project details: 4 part thriller about 4 ordinary guys who get invited to Mallorca by an old college chum, only to discover he is not quite as legit as they thought, after he gets murdered in front of them

4 women are forced to go on the run when their plot to double cross a cheating and dangerous husband backfires

Stars Alex Kingston and Annette Crosbie

Date: 2007-08

Production (role):

Company: Shed Media

Project details: Development Executive

Exec in charge of developing various drama and comedy projects for Shed Media

Date: 2007

Production (role): WATERLOO ROAD (Executive Producer)

Company: BBC 1 (Series 3 & 4, 20 Episodes)

Project details: Popular school drama set in a failing comprehensive

Stars Neil Morrissey, Eva Pope and Jason Merrells

Date: 2007

Production (role): CATWALK DOGS

Company: Shed Productions / ITV

Project details: One off romantic comedy about a couple whose marital problems end with them going head to head as rivals in the bitchy world of pedigree dogs

Stars Kris Marshall and Georgia Mackenzie

Date: 2006

Production (role): MURDER IN THE OUTBACK

Company: ITV / Film Finance Corporation, Australia / Network Ten

Project details: 2-hour film about Joanne Lees, whose boyfriend Peter Falconio was murdered in the Australian Outback and how she became the number one suspect

Stars Joanne Froggat as Joanne Lees and Bryan Brown as Rex Wild QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who successfully conducted the trial to convict Bradley Murdoch

Filmed entirely on location in Australia

Date: 2006

Production (role): NORTHERN LIGHTS

Company: ITV

Project details: 6 x 1 hour comedy drama

Spin-off series about best friends and fierce rivals, Colin and Howie

Dirs. Paul Seed and Tony Dow

Wrs. Jeff Pope and Bob Mills

Stars Robson Green and Mark Benton as the combatants with Sian Reeves and Nicola Stephenson as their wives

Av. audience 6 million

Date: 2005

Production (role): DONOVAN

Company: ITV

Project details: 3 x 90 minutes

Three episode spinoff series starring Tom Conti as a police forensic scientist. Donovan and team investigate a murder of a millionaire, a serial killer of prostitutes and a possible terrorist attack. Co-starred Samantha Bond, Ryan Cartwright and guest starred, Peter Capaldi, Christine Tremarco, and Claire King

Dirs. Brian Kirk, Ciaran Donnelly and Simon Delaney

Av. audience 6.5 million

Date: 2004

Production (role): CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

Company:

Project details: 1 x 2 hours

Christmas telemovie about best friends and brothers-in-law, Colin and Howie, played by Robson Green and Mark Benton. Their friendly rivalry takes an unhealthy turn when the boys start to try to outdo each other’s display of Christmas lights

Dir. Paul Seed

Wrs. Jeff Pope and Bob Mills

11 million

Date: 2004

Production (role): COLD FEET

Company:

Project details: (Series V)

4 x 90 minutes

The final four eps of the award winning series about the six friends, Adam & Rachel, David and Karen, and Pete and Jenny. This is the one where Rachel dies and Jenny returns

Stylish 2 part crime thriller starring Tom Conti as a disgraced forensic scientist and author who is brought back by the Police to solve a copycat murder of a crime he has featured in his writing. Co starring Samantha Bond, Ryan Cartwright, and Indira Varma.

Dir. Simon Delaney

Wr. Mike Cullen

8 million

Date: 2003

Production (role): COLD FEET (Producer / Series Producer)

Company:

Project details: (Series IV)

6 x 1 hour

Bafta award winning series about the six friends as they make life changing decisions. This is the one where they go to Australia to see Pete get married but end up witnessing the break up of David and Karen’s marriage

Dirs. Ciaran Donnelly, Tim Whitby and Simon Delaney

Wr. Mike Bullen

8 million av.

Date: 2001-02

Production (role): COLD FEET

Company:

Project details: (Series III)

8 x 1 hour

Comedy drama series about six youngish couples living in Manchester. Starring James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale. This is the one where David and Karen are the first pair to have a baby. Adam and Rachel finally get married, despite a narrow scrape for Adam on his stag weekend and Pete and Jenny split up

Dirs. Jon Jones, Simon Delaney and Tim Whitby

Wrs Mike Bullen and David Nicholls

7.5 million av.

Date: 2000

Production (role): THE GRIMLEYS (Series Producer)

Company:

Project details: (Series III, 8 Episodes)

Comedy series about the pains of growing up for two teenage brothers, Gordon and Darren in a truly dysfunctional family. Set in the Black Country, in the late Seventies, this series features the advent of punk. Stars Brian Conley as the boys’ sadistic PE teacher Doug Digby, Amanda Holden as their English teacher, the gorgeous Miss Titley and Noddy Holder as Neville Holder, the music teacher. With Jan Ravens and Nigel Planer as the parents from hell.

Wr. Jed Mercurio

Date:

Production (role): COMIN 'ATCHA CLEOPATRA

Company: Initial / Endemol / CITV

Project details: 7 part comedy and drama series about the antics of a 3 sister teen girl band from Manchester as they hit the big time

Starring Cleopatra

Date:

Production (role): MY WONDERFUL LIFE

Company: ITV

Project details: 10 x 1 hour

Comedy series written by Simon Nye, Paul Dornan and Amanda Swift. It centred on the troubled life of a single mum, Donna, played by Emma Wray, as she juggles a disastrous private life with boyfriend Roger, an ex-husband and the pressures of keeping her job as a nursing sister. Also starred Tony Robinson, Hamish Clark, Phil Glenister, & Elizabeth Berrington

Dirs. Keith Washington and Martin Dennis

Date:

Production (role): THE GRIMLEYS

Company: ITV (Series I & II)

Project details: Comedy series set in the seventies about, Darren Grimley and his disastrous family as he grows up in the Black Country when Glam Rock was in its pomp and a Vauxhall Viva with a set of furry dice was an acceptable form of transport

Project details: Powerful drama written by Joe Penhall about a young schizophrenic and the effect his illness and actions have on his loved ones. Featured Anita Dobson. Nicola Stephenson and Andrew Lancel

Dir. Mike Barker

Prod. Richard Fell

Date:

Production (role): WEIRD NIGHT (Executive Producer)

Company: BBC 2

Project details: Overall exec in charge of themed evening Weird Night sought to explore rather than explain. Programmes included Fortean Review of the Year, Last American Freak show, Weird Shit Happens, Strange Days and Roger Corman presents

Date:

Production (role): LAST AMERICAN FREAK SHOW (Executive Producer)

Company: BBC 2

Project details: 1 hour

Documentary about the demise of the American Carnival Freak Show featuring acts like the Wolf Boys, Lobster Man, Fattest Man in the World and their impresario Wade Hall

Dir. Mike Barker

Date:

Production (role): HELL (Series Producer)

Company: BBC

Project details: 13 x 10 minutes

Mark Lamarr presents lightning fast trip about all the events we would choose not to relive, everything from the Driving Test to Losing Virginity

Date:

Production (role): LIVING SOAP (Series Producer)

Company: BBC

Project details: Ground breaking series in which six guinea pig students live together in Manchester and agree to have their lives shown each and every week. Big Brother’s older brother

Date:

Production (role): RONSON MISSION (Director)

Company: BBC 2

Project details: Columnist, Jon Ronson takes an idiosyncratic view of the world of celebrity pets and their owners

Date:

Production (role): THE WORD (Producer / Director)

Company: C4

Project details: Controversial, late night music, chat and occasional bit of buttock clenching and its spin-off, Access All Areas

Date:

Production (role): BIG BREAKFAST PILOT (OB Director)

Company: C4

Project details: Down Your Doorstep segments with Mark Lamarr

Date:

Production (role): CORONATION STREET (Director)

Company: ITV

Project details: Britain's most popular soap serial. It was the time of Bet Lynch running The Rovers and Alan Bradley beating up Rita